一切經音義 95.209

English (machine translation) 95.209

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95.209

Prostrate in worship (蹲膜; the upper character is c[ú] + [s]ūn fanqie; the lower character is m[áng] + [p]ú fanqie. The Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven states: 'He bowed in worship (móbài) and received it.' Guo Pu states: 'The present barbarian custom of worshipping the Buddha by raising hands to the head and proclaiming nánmó in prostration is precisely this.' The Shuowen jiezi states: 'It has the radical 肉 (flesh) and the phonetic 莫').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese